Nearly all of civilization's great advances have come when people, ideas, and artistic creations circulate freely between nations. Orlando Figes offers the first international history of European culture.
19th century
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- Auteur:Holman, SheriSommaire:
A fifteen-year-old prostitute rents a beautiful blue dress from her landlord in order to attract a higher class of clientele. While working to support her fragile only child, she also secures bodies for a local medical doctor's anatomy...
- Auteur:Green, KristenSommaire:
This little-known story of Mary Lumpkin reveals a slave woman who lived in a slave jail that she eventually renamed and transformed into a school for Black men, blazing a path of liberation for thousands.
- Auteur:Kern, StephenSommaire:
- Auteur:Robertson, DavidSommaire:
On her way to school one day, Sarah is relieved to find the book she'd dropped the day before - shortly after an encounter with a bear. But when she opens it, the story within, about the Cree chief Mistahimaskwa, comes alive. It...
- Auteur:Perdue, Theda, Green, Michael D.Sommaire:
Historians Theda Perdue and Michael D. Green paint a portrait of the infamous Trail of Tears. Despite protests from statesmen like Davy Crockett, Daniel Webster, and Henry Clay, a dubious 1838 treaty drives 17,000 mostly Christian...
- Auteur:Stevenson, Robert LouisSommaire:
In 1874, Stevenson left Edinburgh for San Francisco to join his fiancee. A shrewd and sympathetic observer, he produced the best account ever written of the passage to the New World.
- Auteur:Cuthbertson, BrianSommaire:
When New Brunswick became its own colony in 1784, the government concluded several peace treaties with the Mi’kmaq and Maliseet in the territory that protected First Nations lands. But as settlers, loyalists, and disbanded soldiers...
- Auteur:Erickson, SteveSommaire:
When the Twin Towers suddenly reappear in the badlands of South Dakota, nobody can explain their return. To the tens of thousands drawn to the "American Stonehenge," the Towers seem to sing, even as everybody hears a different song.
- Auteur:Neufeld, DaneSommaire:
During a period of great religious upheaval, Anglican philosopher and ecclesiastic Henry Longueville Mansel (1820-1871) became famous for his 1858 Bampton Lectures, which sought to defend traditional faith by employing a skeptical...
- Auteur:Wangersky, RussellSommaire:
'Read him.' — George Elliott Clarke, author of I & I and George and Rue An award-winning author goes looking for the meaning of family and belonging on a glorious wild-goose-chase road trip across middle America Wangersky's great-...
- Auteur:Dougan, AndySommaire:
In 1818, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein introduced readers to the concept of raising the dead through scientific procedures. Few, however, realised that Shelley's story has a strong basis in fact, and the subject of arguably; the greatest...
- Auteur:Hannah, DanielSommaire:
The instability of modernist form has everything to do with the social, political, and economic shakeups of the nineteenth century that left masculinity a site of contestation, racial anxiety, homophobic paranoia, performative display,...
- Auteur:Ray, Deborah KoganSommaire:
Documents the life and achievements of the nineteenth-century Northern Paiute leader, examining how her aptitude for languages and diplomacy enabled her to advocate on behalf of her tribe.
- Auteur:Fletcher, Edward TaylorSommaire:
"Edward Taylor Fletcher was born in England in 1817 and arrived in Canada as a young boy. An important figure in Canadian literature, Fletcher's writing was almost entirely forgotten by history. In this volume, James Gifford has...
- Auteur:Ishiguro, LauraSommaire:
Nothing to Write Home About uncovers the significance of British family correspondence sent between the United Kingdom and British Columbia between 1858 and 1914. Drawing on thousands of letters, Laura Ishiguro offers insights into...
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- Auteur:Richards, DustySommaire:
Former rancher Herschel Baker has just settled into the job as sheriff of Yellowstone County when a cowboy is hung from a tree with the words "Hoss Steeler" pinned to his chest. It's vigilante justice, plain and simple, and it's just...
- Auteur:Johnson, CharlesSommaire:
Rutherford Calhoun, a newly freed slave from an Illinois farm, travels to New Orleans only to discover that nothing but misery awaits him in the big city. Sitting on a pier as he contemplates his life, he decides the sea holds his...
- Auteur:Gordon, GrahamSommaire:
Biography of Jem Mace the father of modern boxing and the first worldwide sports star.